Jodha Akbar Ordeal!!




















I had posted this long back on Daman's blog
( http://www.damanxpressions.blogspot.com). Anyways, am reproducing it here again...

I couldn’t recall last where I had been let down so much. All the hype and hoopla surrounding Jodhaa Akbar had fizzed out in a 3:30 hrs ordeal.

Wondering what Mr. Gowariker could have done differently, I was in a fix!!

Hrithik hadn’t let us down yet again. He is one of those guys who will give his 100% , no matter how substandard the script is, remember the string of flops that followed Kaho na pyaar , there wasn’t one film where the boy faltered.

Ash was her usual self ..’’All handwriting and no content”( Mahesh Bhatt in one of the umpteen interviews on television). Although, I guess we appreciate her that way. But age/marriage seems to have taken a toll on her,boys- figure it that out that for yourself!!
There wasn’t any problem with Ashutosh’s direction either.

Well quite clearly there wasn’t enough meat in the story.

A poor script!! Mr Gowariker had never faltered in this area of film making before.
To put the record straight,
But for the grandeur and scale, it would have been a soap opera running for at least 1000 episodes. Hey did Ekta Kapoor pounce on that idea!!

A grumpy mother in law played by a hapless Ila Arun, well we never knew she could act also!!A marriage of compromise and subsequent saas – bahu “nok-jhoks”.

(Remember that salubrious meal, it already had few lips reaching out for it, Anand and Vikas suddenly had their stomachs doing a “Ding a Dong…”btw, they are my friends).

The director started with a noble cause but somewhere he seemed to have lost the track. The war scenes were presented with panache, but hey hold on!!

There was hardly any fact to the story…
What is the fuss that these Rajputs are trying to create when there was hardly any fact or to put it simply…It was fiction all the way with doses of History interspersed here and there!!The producers seemed to have cashed on the name of Akbar…Well its paying dividend too!!…The movie is running to nearly packed houses all over the country.

Ever thought where to spend your dad’s 80 bucks in case u plan for this movie ..I have a few suggestions for u..

To start with .. A laconic bargain with one of the college side vendors for a high octane Novel , and I would have my food and fodder for the next few days.

A HOT Cappuccino with Miss Wadhwa ( subject to permission from her bhaiya!!)..Stop dreaming, u idiot!!

Yeah, how do I miss out on those humorous anecdotes by Vikas, perhaps the only saving grace of the film.

DISCLAIMER: Those jokes were purely Non-Veg!!